Friday Funday CXI

September 8, 2006

Please note: This post was published over a year ago, so please be aware that its content may not be quite so accurate anymore. Also, the format of the site has changed since it was published, so please excuse any formatting issues.

Friday Funday brings you some fun and interesting links from my travels around the internet.

This is an awesome little puzzle game where you play a robot who has to solve various puzzles so he can… Um… Well, I’m not really sure what the point is, but it’s damn cool. At the moment, I’m in the room after the TV. I haven’t had a chance to play around in there much, but I think I know what to do…

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As it turns out, that was the last room in Gateway. Had I played for a few more minutes yesterday, I would have completed it. That makes me sad, it was a fun game! A little on the easy side, but perhaps that’s part of what made it fun for me. -)

Gateway was one of the games in the Jay is Games Game Design Competition. It won the audience prize.

It was ALSO one of the entries NEARLY UNPLAYABLE for color-blind people (such as myself). The creator caught so much flak in the comments about it, it was harsh (but made me smile ^_^). People were analyzing the colors he used and demonstrating (with math) why they were such bad choices.

FINALLY, people are beginning to understand why accessibility is important. I managed to beat the game, but only by iterating all possible combinations until I got to the right one (seriously). And I can’t play Jewel Drop at all…

The one about Mark Twain is true, and I know that at least some of the ones regarding Lincoln and Kennedy are true. One of my favorite historical coincidences didn’t make it though.

A short time before the end of the Civil War, at a train station (I forget the city), a large crowd gathered waiting for the train. As the train approached, the crowd surged forward, and a young student fell onto the tracks. Just before he was about to get hit, another young man, an actor, reached down and pulled him up, saving his life. The two men became friends. Soon afterwards, however, the actor’s brother would kill the student’s father. The student: Robert Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln. The actor: Edwin Booth, brother of John Wilkes Booth.